The streaming platforms suffer from fragmentation right now: People don't like hopping between a dozen different streaming platforms to consume entertainment - regardless of price or ads. If you give them an option for a single place where all their media is, they will use it, regardless of what is happening behind the scenes.

They will never all merge into one because of regulatory pressure and because they are competitors.

It seems nice to have one less streaming platform in some ways, but it's not a pathway forward.

I'll continue to use Jellyfin with a few hard drives.